Events & meetings

The thirteenth ODF Plugfest was hosted by the city of Rome with support from Logius and organised by OpenDoc Society. This event was coordinated along side the annual LibreOffice conference and co-located at the iconic conference venue “Piazza del Campidoglio”… Continue Reading →

Background By Steven Pemberton & Stuart J Mackintosh If you have used a computer-based word processor, spreadsheet or presentation in recent years, the Open Document Format (ODF) open standard will have almost certainly impacted your experience in some way. Find… Continue Reading →

OpenUK is the co-host and sponsor with the BCS Open Source Specialist Group of the annual Open for Business conference. This is our annual festival of open source in the business environment which takes place on Monday 5th September in… Continue Reading →

I’m in CERN this weekend at the annual meeting of the Free and Open Source silicon design community. CERN with its open hardware group is a leading player in this area. This is our fourth meeting, and the size reflects… Continue Reading →

To those familiar with traditional business models, my company, Embecosm, is something of a mystery. A team of very highly paid engineers using expensive equipment to write immensely complex software, which we then give away for free. Yet despite this,… Continue Reading →

As the week of activities surrounding Document Freedom Day 2015 draws to a close, it is time to reflect on the lasting effects that have been inspired through this global initiative. With over 50 events around the world promoting openness… Continue Reading →

An Introduction to FPGA Programming London, 20-21 April 2013 Organised by OSC member embecosm A two day introductory workshop on field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) aimed at complete beginners with no prior experience of hardware description languages (HDL) and FPGA workflows.… Continue Reading →

Open Source Hardware User Group Meeting London, 18 April 2013, 6pm This event is organised by our friends the Open Source Hardware Group The second meeting of 2013 marking their third anniversary will feature a talk on writing embedded firmware… Continue Reading →

Open Source Hardware User Group Meeting London, 21 February 2013, 6pm This event is organised by our friends the Open Source Hardware Group At their first meeting of 2013 there will be three topics: Nanode after two years Open Source… Continue Reading →

Open Source Hardware Event 15 November 2012, London, 6.45pm Embedded systems continue to grow in importance as they play an ever-increasing role in everyday life: more computing is done on the move as smartphone functionality catches up with desktops and… Continue Reading →